Why it’s so hard to guess who’s going to get a Nobel Prize – CNN

(CNN)The short listis secret, as are the nominators, and documents revealing the juicy details are sealed from public view for 50 years.
The Nobel Prizes forPhysics, Chemistry and Medicine are the acmeof scientific achievement — honoring great minds and life-changing discoveries. But predicting who will be summoned to Stockholm and win the accolades, which are announced next week, is easy to get wrong.
That doesn’t mean that people don’t try.
Some look at which scientists have won so-calle…

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